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Former Milwaukee officer charged with first-degree reckless homicide in shooting

Body camera footage shows Smith unarmed at time of shot that killed him

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Updated: 11:51 AM EST Dec 15, 2016

Former Milwaukee officer charged with first-degree reckless homicide in shooting

Body camera footage shows Smith unarmed at time of shot that killed him

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Updated: 11:51 AM EST Dec 15, 2016

MILWAUKEE —

The former Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith, sparking days of unrest, has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide.

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Dominque Heaggan-Brown was charged Thursday morning.

Smith was shot and killed August 13.

According to the criminal complaint, a review of the body camera footage showed that Smith fled from police carrying a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine.

The video showed Smith slip, rise back to his feet with the gun, and then he raised the gun upward while looking in the direction of the officers and threw the gun over the fence into the yard.

Smith’s firearm was not discharged, the complaint reported.

When Smith raised his gun upward, Heaggan-Brown fired one shot from his service weapon at Smith and Smith fell to the ground on his back.

It was later determined that it was Heaggan-Brown’s shot that struck Smith in his right arm, the complaint said.

Heaggan-Brown can then be seen standing a short distance from Smith with his weapon pointed down at Smith when Heaggan-Brown discharged a second shot from his weapon at what appeared to be Smith’s chest.

The body camera footage showed Smith was unarmed at the time of the second shot, the complaint said.

Police Chief Ed Flynn fired Heaggan-Brown on Oct. 31 after he was charged in with second-degree sexual assault in regards to an incident and another from July in which prosecutors said Heaggan-Brown had sexually-explicit photos on his cellphone of him and a second man taken when that victim was passed out.

Heaggan-Brown was also charged with two counts of prostitution. In the charging document, prosecutors alleged that he offered two men money for sex on several occasions dating back to December 2015.